Rescuers spotted the man on the stricken vessel's stern as it was being towed to port.
"Tell me I'm alive," the 21-year-old truck driver who said he was from Belarus, told rescuers, according to the Proto Thema news website. Clad in tan shorts and a black t-shirt he climbed down a ladder into a rescue boat, according to images from the iefimerida news website.broke out on the Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia late on ThursdayRescuers managed to save 280 passengers on Friday, evacuating them to Corfu, but 12 lorry drivers remained missing.Authorities initially gave the missing as seven from Bulgaria, three from Greece, one from Turkey and one from Lithuania.
On Sunday, they said that there was an error and the missing Lithuanian was actually the man saved, who was from Belarus.
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